Favourite Website Awards (FWA) - Web awards at the cutting edge
Macromedia - Developer Center : Skinning the Flash MX 2004 Components
Managing the Digital Enterprise | About the Course
From the site "Managing the Digital Enterprise is a guide to the challenges that face managers in the digital realm."
Educom Review July/August, 1998 Reconstructing Minimalism Adapted by John M. Carroll from his book Minimalism: Beyond the Nürnberg Funnel
FlickerLab Flash to Video - a really great resource about using Flash to make content for delivery via video. Includes such about title safe areas, movie clips and line width.
To be honest it feel really odd to doing "mainstream study" I'm so used to studio based, practice base model that I'm still really not cormfortable with writting. Even after doing a PhD. For my reflection I really wish I actually used the tool I made, and I'm going to have do do that in the next few days so I can outline project proposal.
Instructional Design Models - M4L1P1 hmm which model fits for me.
ADE - Best Practices - Best Practices - UMUC
From the site "This section presents three different examples of Web-based media used in actual online courses, and describes revisions made to improve accessibility. Chosen carefully to illustrate the range of technologies in use in online learning, these examples also offer insight into the varying levels of complexity of the revisions. "
SimPlay.Net Role Play Simulations
Also "Roni Linser is considered to be one of the world leaders in this type of work."
I should really have been writting my first posting, but instead I've spent a chunk of time reading and thinking about the whole process and my whole project. I few quite ideas have come together, the ideas of carroll's minimialist ID stuff are great because I can see the interelationship being Merrill and Constructivisim in these ideas.
When I've been reading I've been thinking about my project, (scripting for designers) which sort of limits some of my confusion, but I cans see how things are starting to eg situated learning actually relates to minialmism.
Minimalism and HTML-based Help - its getting late but should read this
Empathic Instructional Design - This article relates some of the current practices in design back to ID. Which is sort of great, but at the same time why brainstorm when solution might already exist ?
But what does work for me is idea of the designer being empathic to what the learning needs, and for process not be mechanical.
Experience Based Learning Systems, Inc. - has a number of assessment tools on the site, for assessing learning styles.
Broadly speaking, he suggests that practitioners of creative disciplines, such as the arts, are found in the Divergent quadrant.
Hmm this is interesting because it starts to combine the idea everyone being different with a more sysematic approach
Hmm this is interesting because gagne's theory what currently under pins my current practice in F2F delivery. To be honest I"m not sure if I'm happy with this.
What I do like is:
Gagne identifies five major categories of learning: verbal information, intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, motor skills and attitudes
New Methods for Designing Experiences Slides from Nathan Shedroff.
New Methods for Designing Experiences
New User Profile Traits:
Psychographics
Emotions
Biases, Mindsets, and Skills
Experiences
Approach
This could form a set of cards maybe ?
XHTML Basic - this is the recommendation standard to use for handheld and phone design. Most imode phone support this.
MacEdition Guide to CSS2 Support in PDA/Handheld Browsers
Writing a PDA Friendly Web Site
Mobile Web Site Design Overview
Pocket Internet Explorer HTML Element Reference
Pocket Internet Explorer Overview
Pocket PC Web site development tips
Creating Web Pages for Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer 2.0
HTML and CSS for Mobiles - HTML Dog Blog - HTML Dog
Welcome to the MSDN Library - but is for the old version.
Learning Theories of Instructional Design
This article is a key article for me so far, the sort "real world" approach that takes for blend different ideas together really reflects strong some of what I've been thinking.
Finally feel like the online teachings is going OK. I really wish I hadn't used jargon yesterday but it seem like we have moved on and that we having lost anyone. What is really hard is know that "model" is really important part of the design of this course and I don't feel like I've done a great job at.
I'm not sure if I could do this online teaching thing all the time !!!! (there is maybe to many words for)
It's sort of odd because I feel a bit like baby Brad. Time was a bit more chaotic today partly because I wasn't hiding in the lab and I was working the staff room and people want to talk to me and I don't really think they understood what I was doing. I feel a bit nervous about the phone conversation tomorrow but it's only a small group.
It feels likes it's been age since I've written anything in my blog and really need to do some more work on instructional design course.
LearnScope - I haven't heard of this idea before. Maybe I need "patch" my web presence ?
BrainJar.com: Experiments in Web Programming
From the site "BrainJar.com features technical articles, tutorials and examples of programming for the web. It's not intended as a "cut and paste" site but rather a learning resource."
The Analysis Phase of an e-Learning Project
I really like this quote, doing this has lead to some of my past failures. "Many corporate training managers or executives believe that they intuitively know what students need in a training program."
This article also list some of the standard tools. The access the learners list is quite good, and they also suggest a tech assessment. Which is where some online learning falls down at the moment.